Teachers’ Corrective Feedback Strategies in Assessing Essay Writing

Noor Hafizah Abdul Aziz ,Arsaythamby Veloo

doi:10.32861/jssr.spi6.208.212

Abstract

Feedback has been an important topic of discussion in language learning. Although research on written corrective feedback is available, there is little research on the specific strategies employed by teachers in order to provide feedback on their students’ essay writing. This paper reports part of a larger research. One of the objectives of this study was to explore corrective feedback strategies employed by the English as a second language (ESL) teachers and English language expert raters when assessing their students’ written essays. This study used qualitative case study which involved 12 participants. Data were collected through interviewing nine English language teachers and three English language expert raters to obtain their pedagogic practices in providing written corrective feedback. The strategies identified are based on Ellis’s typology of strategies for providing written corrective feedback. The findings showed that the preferred written corrective feedback strategy used by the teachers and raters was Metalinguistic Corrective Feedback with Direct Corrective Feedback and Focused Corrective Feedback used by only a few of them. This study has pedagogical implications in that it explains the ESL teachers/expert raters’ pedagogical attitude and practices towards error correction and their preferred written corrective feedback strategies in dealing with error correction.

Highlights

Traditional architecture despite being regarded as primitive or out dated has always been the main source of references in the social and cultural studies by architects, historian and anthropologists
At least two types of Tunjuk Langit exist in Rumah Limas Bumbung Perak (RLBP)
Papan Pemeleh of RLBP is different compared to those the iconic Papan Pemeleh of the east coast style in Kelantan and Terengganu

Summary

Introduction

Traditional architecture despite being regarded as primitive or out dated has always been the main source of references in the social and cultural studies by architects, historian and anthropologists. In the state of Perak the development and expansion of the traditional Malay villages and towns during the colonial era outlined an interesting collection of architectural study. Colonial architecture The traditional Malay architecture found along the riverbank of Sungai Perak are mostly in the form of old Malay palaces, traditional houses and mosques whilst the colonial architecture are mostly located in several towns along the river such as Kuala Kangsar, Parit, Bota, Pasir Salak, Kampung Gajah and Teluk Intan where many. A typological study of the traditional architecture established at least two main categories or architectural styles: i. Rumah Limas Bumbung Perak (RLBP) Study done by Anuar Talib (2005), (Norhasandi Bin Mat, 2010) and (Mohd, 2018) found that RBM were the earlier architectural style of the Perak Malay houses in comparison to RLBP. The earliest house of RLBP found was built circa 1900‟s and continue until 1970‟s with certain architectural design development

Decorative Elements of Traditional Malay House

Tiang Gantung

Research Methodology

Discussion and Analysis

Discussion